> On June 25, 2012, 11:48 a.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > First of all thanks for a perfect review request! That's how they all 
> > should be done ;)
> > 
> > As for the change - I'm not in favor. Truth is that the bold font looks 
> > bad, but the italics looks a bit worse for my eyes. I'd like to do two 
> > things here - Nikita, please add Usability group in the review groups. To 
> > all others - try brainstorming some ideas here how we can separate these 
> > (do we need it at all?).
> 
> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     As far as I can tell the custom presence messages still include a status 
> such as "Away" or "Busy"?
>     So we could add a custom delegate to the combobox to have it in two-rows. 
> A bigger icon on the left and the generic term as heading and if available a 
> custom subtitle below it. Similar to e.g. Plasma does for the Wallpaper 
> Plugin.
>     See here: http://privat.broulik.de/plasmacustomdelegate.png
>     I think in this example the bold font doesn’t look bad at all. It just 
> looks out of place if the font size is the regular dialog font size.
> 
> Martin Klapetek wrote:
>     That looks good, thanks for the idea!
>     
>     > the custom presence messages still include a status such as "Away" or 
> "Busy"
>     
>     Nope, the "Away", "Busy" etc is replaced by the custom presence message 
> itself, see the "After" screenshot above.
>     
>     > So we could add a custom delegate to the combobox to have it in two-rows
>     
>     I think this would be really nice. Anyone interested in doing a 
> mockup/stealing that code and putting presences in it?
> 
> Nikita Skovoroda wrote:
>     > http://privat.broulik.de/plasmacustomdelegate.png
>     
>     Isn't the icon good enough for that?
>     
>     What will be on the first row and what will be on the second?
>     
>     If no custom message means no second row, then i don't like if by default 
> (with no custom presences) there would be only huge 2-row variants with big 
> icons and empty second rows.
>     That's just wrong.

First row would always be the presence name, second the presence message (if 
present). I'll do a mockup tomorrow so we can see how it would look like. Might 
turn out it's not good at all ;)


- Martin


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On June 25, 2012, 7:50 p.m., Nikita Skovoroda wrote:
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> (Updated June 25, 2012, 7:50 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for Telepathy and KDE Usability.
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> The bold font looks bad, especially if there is no custom presences (then 
> almost all variants are bold).
> 
> Changes done by the patch:
> 1) global-presence-chooser.cpp — make special presences italic.
> 2) presence-model.cpp — make presences without status message not bold.
> 3) presence-model.cpp — make presences with status message italic.
> 
> This replaces «normal» font with «italic», and «bold» with «normal» in the 
> presence shooser.
> 
> Looks better to me.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   global-presence-chooser.cpp 6729f51 
>   presence-model.cpp 72bfc3d 
> 
> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105348/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> Does not break anything. The result is on the screenshots.
> 
> This does not break visual separation of different status groups, when there 
> are a lot of custom presences (the bold entries separated them) — they can be 
> easily distingushed thanks to the icons.
> 
> 
> Screenshots
> -----------
> 
> Before
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105348/s/608/
> After
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105348/s/609/
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nikita Skovoroda
> 
>

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